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Before we begin, I would like you to take a look at this interactive map that I was required to look at for a class: http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/top-15-causes-of-death

Suicide is on that list.

According to the map (and other sources I’ve seen before), suicide is one of the highest causes of death in the US. If that’s not discouraging, I don’t know what is.

Why do people commit or even attempt suicide? Well, there can be multiple reasons. Being made fun of, feeling like they don’t belong, not being able to live with trauma, and more. Much more.

Often times, we ignore the signs. We think people talking about suicide are just looking for attention, or just making a show.

It’s time to stop that way of thinking.

It’s time we started lifting each other up, instead of putting others down. What a difference that could make. People can get past feeling suicidal if they feel like they have a purpose in life. Wouldn’t that be great?

I’m not saying it will be easy. It won’t be. It will still be very hard, and some people aren’t easily convinced, especially if they’ve been told that nobody cares about them their entire life. Been there, done that. It’s not easy to get out of that way of thinking.

It may not be easy, but it’s also not impossible. If we start talking positively to one another instead of talking negatively, think about the difference that we can start to make. If we all work together, maybe one day, we can stop suicide once and for all.

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This is ridiculous. Today, I read an article about a woman that was born because her mother was raped by her father. Her father also so happened to be the father of her mother.

When I read the article, I was appalled. I was thankful the mother decided to keep the baby, even though the doctors advised against it. She gave up everything…all to keep a child that came into the world in the worst way possible.

Am I saying that she shouldn’t have kept that child? No, of course not. The child she had wrote the article that I read today. If the mother hadn’t had the child, I never would have read about it.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t end there. That child’s father abused her as well. She also became pregnant, but that ended in a miscarriage. Then, when she was grown and her husband was away on business, she was raped by a neighbor, and she conceived a child by him, which also ended in a miscarriage.

To not only go through abuse, but to also go through a miscarriage four times — yes, four times — is awful beyond words.

The worst part is, if she hadn’t had the miscarriages, her father would have forced her to get an abortion.

These monsters have to be stopped. It seems they will stop at nothing to get what they want, no matter what. If they aren’t stopped, we won’t be spared the pain of either being abused or knowing someone that has been abused.